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When a character's hairstyle connected a caller amusement receives the royal treatment, you cognize it's going to bring the drama.
Marie Antoinette, a caller bid connected PBS, follows Maria Antonia's matrimony to the King of France Louis XVI and their extravagant manner earlier diving heavy into their downfall during the French Revolution successful 1793.
And since the bid showcases the interior workings of France's past queen (played by Emilia Schüle), what amended mode to item the benignant icon than by giving her, um, hairsbreadth to dice for? Head hairdresser Sébastien Quinet exclusively told E! News however helium honored the precocious royal by staying existent to the techniques and quality ideals of the era.
"It wasn't conscionable immoderate clip play with an insignificant character," helium said. "It was the Marie Antoinette."
He pointed retired the excessive elegance of 18th-century France and however appearances were straight linked to societal hierarchy, adding, "It symbolized wealthiness and power."
"In this case," helium continued, "the greater the hair, the higher societal status."
And this attention to item is especially noticeable successful Marie's character, arsenic Sébastien intentionally switched up her looks the more she evolved into the queen of style—a rubric she earned during her reign.
Caroline Dubois - Capa Drama / Banijay Studios France / Les Gens / Canal+ via PBS
"They go much stylized and greater with her popularity and emergence to powerfulness astatine court," helium said of the ever-changing looks. "Under Louis XVI, women had hairstyles with small volume. It was Marie Antoinette who imposed the manner of grander hair, small by small erstwhile she arrived successful France."
And if you wage attraction closely, you'll find that nary of the different characters upstage Marie. As the hairdresser enactment it, "There is ever 1 'queen' headpiece that the different headpieces look to adhere to."
Sébastien besides explained that helium not lone studied paintings of the era, but helium was besides well-versed successful the methods hairdressers utilized backmost then.
"They had hairsbreadth irons that would beryllium enactment implicit a flame," helium explained of the old-school techniques. "Knowing the textures and tools they were moving with, I could mimic what past emphasized erstwhile it came to Marie Antoinette's hair."
Caroline Dubois - Capa Drama / Banijay Studios France / Les Gens / Canal+ via PBS
Of course, Sébastien enactment his ain "inventive touch" to the larger-than-life headpieces seen passim the show, like replicating the textures successful the paintings helium referenced and adding them to the looks. And it was nary tiny feat either, arsenic helium made 56 wigs for the formed and rented 80 for the extras.
There's nary mistaking that, for Marie, being capable to enactment her champion look guardant wielded power. As Sébastien eloquently enactment it, "Amongst the French Court, fashion, hairsbreadth and quality were everything."
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